Keir Starmer bids farewell to Downing Street by allocating more money for weapons than for fixing roads and promoting energy projects. It is the last major political act of a prime minister on the verge of leaving office, after announcing his resignation nine days ago, cornered by party colleagues who had lost confidence in the man who led them to electoral victory just two years ago.

Brexit is a representative example of how a demagogic idea (less than an idea, barely a slogan) can come to condition an old, stable, and respected democracy like the British one, and by extension, international politics. More than anything else, Brexit was a huge, colossal stupidity, and as happens with stupidities, its effects were — and still are — devastating. Keir Starmer became prime minister with a striking Labour absolute majority as has not been seen for a long time, and now abandons power mid-term, with discredit earned through hard work: to implement neoliberal policies, the others were already there, there was no need for a Labour politician as right-wing — and as anti-European — as the Tories themselves. Starmer has had to experience from power the explosion of the far-right in the United Kingdom, represented by Reform UK, Nigel Farage's party, an old populist who had always played a residual role in British politics and who now has solid possibilities of gaining power.Starmer's resignation has coincided with the conviction of former minister and former organization secretary of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, and the Spanish right sighs: may Pedro Sánchez follow the example of his colleague Starmer, who after all is also one of them, they say. Starmer was made to step down, as he himself has acknowledged, by his own party. The Spanish right wants to play Pedro Sánchez the trick we already know from Lula da Silva in Brazil or António Costa in Portugal: to set up a judicial siege around a president and his government (with true and false causes, and with an arbitrary and discretionary use of the justice administration) until the president in question resigns or ends up in prison (this would be the most desired outcome with Sánchez).Those who will go to prison, with sentences that surely must be adjusted to their crimes, are Ábalos and Koldo. The exemplary nature of the sentence should be celebrated, as well as the speed of the process: let's hope the example also applies to the PP, a party that according to the Gürtel sentence has been organized to commit crimes at least since 1988 and occupies headquarters paid for with black money, without anything happening. The two speeds, the different yardsticks: Kitchen has reached trial thirteen years late, and it seems that justice is also in no hurry with the Montoro case, of structural gravity for the powers of the state. Nothing that we do not know, on the other hand, since the offensive of the robes against the Process. Finally, the one who will not go to prison will be Víctor de Aldama, one of those characters who seem to be taken from Santiago Segura's films and who abound and move at high speed among the high powers of Madrid. A hustler, a betrayer, a liar, and an almost confessed swindler who gets away with the laughter of the triumphant scoundrel. "Thanks to justice," says the subject, with all the cynicism, and encourages "those who come behind" to follow his example. Spanish democracy does not need any Brexit, it creates it every day.

Post-Brexit United Kingdom has become a devourer of political leaderships. That referendum, held ten years ago, condemned the country's will to leave the European Union and has ended up becoming a point of no return. It was the beginning of a fracture that crossed the English Channel, but also the British society. Brexit marks the point where United Kingdom politics became unmanageable. Six prime ministers in a decade. The latest victim is the Labour politician Keir Starmer, who had to resign just two years after achieving the third most important majority for his party, after Tony Blair's victories. Starmer has fallen victim to his colleagues and a majority that was never his. That overwhelming result in July 2024 was, above all, a forceful rejection of the conservative disarray and not a closing of ranks around a uncharismatic politician who promised tranquility and technocratic competence.

A tearful and emotional Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for less than two years, announced this Monday that he is stepping down in a speech of just over six minutes. After a weekend of reflection at his country residence, and having communicated his decision to King Charles III, the premier has come to the conclusion that everyone around him had already accepted, perhaps less so himself. But the pressure has finally become unbearable given the evident lack of support within the Labour parliamentary group.

The UK's most famous cat is waiting for a new owner. Larry, adopted by the Prime Minister's office and officially named chief mouse-catcher of the cabinet in February 2011, saw on Sunday that journalists, photographers, and television cameras had gathered outside the door of 10 Downing Street awaiting events. While the big animal ensured that no stranger – and even less so any rodent – crossed the threshold of the cute but uncomfortable Georgian house on the famous Whitehall alley, Keir Starmer spent the weekend at Chequers, his official country residence, just over sixty kilometers northwest of London.

Good news for British Labourism and, at the same time, bad news for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and also for the ultra Nigel Farage. The incontestable victory in the Makerfield constituency by Andy Burnham in the by-election to the House of Commons held this Thursday opens a new phase in the party's crisis, and positions the Mayor of Manchester as the main contender to succeed Starmer in Downing Street. Burnham obtained 54.8% of the votes (24,927 ballots), very comfortably defeating the Reform Party candidate, Robert Kenyon (15,696). After almost a decade focused on local politics, the so-called King of the North will be able to return to Westminster, where he already tried to seize the party's reins after the electoral defeat of 2010.

If in a country the central bank governor has to publicly deny having carried out a covert coup d'état to overthrow a democratic government, it is logical to think that the country may have a problem with its central bank – and with the governor in question. This is exactly what Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, had to do in November 2022, following the resignation of Liz Truss as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, only 44 days after taking office. As if Truss's bad luck were not enough, during her brief term, Queen Elizabeth II died.

Blunt politics for all to see and gossip that functions as footnotes. After 117 days of review, the British government released on Monday the second installment of the Mandelson files: 1,504 pages of documents regarding Peter Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the United States. Although there is no explosive revelation directly implicating Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a designation already controversial due to Mandelson's known ties to confessed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the files offer an unusual snapshot of the inner workings of the Labour government.

Change of political cycle in the United Kingdom after fourteen years of Conservative governments. Keir Starmer's Labour Party has achieved a resounding victory in Thursday's general election. With the results from two constituencies still to be announced, Labour has secured 412 seats, which comfortably surpasses the threshold for an absolute majority, set at 326. The party led by Starmer since spring 2020 has thus brought about a spectacular turnaround in the figures from the last election, held in 2019 (202 MPs), at the peak of Boris Johnson's popularity. Starmer has thus brought about a spectacular turnaround in the figures from the last election, held in 2019 (202 MPs), at the peak of Boris Johnson's popularity.

No time to lose. The transfer of power in the United Kingdom is immediate. At five in the morning this Friday, the Labour Party managed to surpass the threshold of an absolute majority (326 seats; it has obtained 412, with the result of two constituencies yet to be known), and seven and a half hours later, Keir Starmer, accompanied by his wife, Victoria, entered Downing Street after having received the commission from King Charles III to form a new executive, and having thus become the 58th premier in the country's history.

The Brexit wound continues to bleed the British Labour Party, and by extension, the United Kingdom. The crisis that opened up in Keir Starmer's government last week following the electoral catastrophe of May 7 –and the growing internal pressure to oust him– has once again placed membership of the European Union at the center of the debate, as the tenth anniversary of the referendum approaches on June 23.

British politics has been advancing for decades like a Shakespearean comedy of errors: the characters change, but the pattern repeats. Long before the Brexit referendum, a decade ago, Westminster was already chaining cycles of confusion, miscalculated maneuvers, and governments trapped in their own mistakes. From 1974 – with two general elections, the fall of the conservative government, the winter of discontent, and unions at war – to parliaments without an absolute majority in the 21st century, passing through the illegal suspension of Parliament in 2019, the British system has shown a recurring fragility that contrasts with an image of impeccable solidity. The resignation announcement made this Monday by Keir Starmer, when he has not yet been in government for two years, once again highlights this.

has been very clear. At this point, then, it is very difficult to say if the revolt of the According to various British press reports, the head of the Interior Ministry, Shabana Mahmood, and the Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, have made it clear in recent hours that sustaining his leadership is impossible. The Justice Minister and number two in the executive, David Lammy, and the Defence Minister, John Healey, would also have spoken about his future. But the prime minister has been very clear. At this point, then, it is very difficult to say if the revolt of the backbench MPs will succeed.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has borrowed some words from the ad hoclaw.

Keir Starmer is living on borrowed time. He doesn't know it yet, he doesn't want to admit it, and he intends to fight with all his might, but the result of Thursday's local elections in England, along with those in the national Parliaments of Scotland and Wales, have left the British prime minister mortally wounded. As a defibrillator and last resort to avoid the inevitable, Starmer, who has been practically rudderless since he won the elections, less than two years ago, has dusted off two of the old glories of New Labour.

The political crisis surrounding Keir Starmer over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to Washington in December 2024 has worsened this week, after Olly Robbins' appearance in Parliament has revealed numerous contradictions in the process followed. The discrepancies between Downing Street's account and the testimony of who until last week was the highest-ranking Foreign Office official responsible for overseeing the designation, once again place the prime minister's judgment at the center of the controversy, and leave him in a very compromised position.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer woke up this Friday morning with a new headacheAnother factor will put more pressure on an already weakened leadership. Overtaken by the Green Party, Labour suffered a catastrophic result in the by-election held this Thursday in the Gorton and Denton district, a traditional Labour stronghold in south Manchester. Two years ago, in the July 2024 elections, he Labour She achieved 50.8% of the vote. Yesterday, she plummeted to exactly half that: 25.4%, relegating her to third place, even behind Nigel Farage's Reform Party.

Like in the old days of Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz TrussThe feeling of chaos returned to Downing Street this Monday following the impact of the Jeffrey Epstein papers scandal and the continuous political errors of premier, Keir Starmer, despite his overwhelming majority in the Commons. In just a few hours, the Prime Minister has gone from being almost doomed to receiving the support of all his ministers and, for the moment, salvaging his leadership.

Keir Starmer is fighting for his political survival. The shockwave of Epstein case ha explosion in the heart of Westminster this week And in a speech in south London this Thursday, premier He has apologized to the victims of the pedophile for appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington in early 2025. The appointment came when there was already ample evidence that this stalwart of British politics maintained his friendship with the financier, even after his 2009 conviction for prostitution.

The Epstein bomb has erupted with full force in the face of Keir Starmer's Labour government. The publication, last Friday, of more than three million documents from the pedophile A US Department of Justice investigation has revealed that Peter Mandelson, a member of the House of Lords and until last September the British ambassador to Washington, shared confidential government information with the confessed pedophile in 2009. This occurred during his time as Gordon Brown's Minister of Business, and de facto, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The political scandal in the United Kingdom is enormous and the damage to the premier It comes at a time of great political weakness.